The initiation and growth of turbulent spots in transitional hypersonic boundary layers can influence the transition length and the distribution of heat transfer and skin friction through the transitional region. There is debate in the literature about whether spots initiate in a small band at the start of transition or throughout the transitional region. This paper presents a new design of arrays of thin-film heat transfer specifically designed to detect whether spots initiate in a small band. The gauges were arranged in two spanwise rows at different streamwise locations and were tested on a 7° blunt cone in the T4 Stalker Tube. It is shown that such instrumentation is capable of identifying that some spots initiate between the rows when other spots have already formed upstream of the first row. This demonstrates that the breakdown of laminar boundary layers is not concentrated in a region of small streamwise extent in the current hypersonic flows.


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    Title :

    Heat-Transfer Gauge Arrays for Identifying Spot Initiation in Hypersonic Transitional Boundary Layers


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    2023-09-01




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    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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